Jeff Green wrote: > > Is said disk IDE or SCSI, if IDE IDE. I can't afford scsi :)
> and your motherboard is over 18 months > or so old you will need to flash the motherboard bios. Uh, oh :) It's from the first set of 603's that worked (once they dropped the third sdram slot), so it's near the end of '97, I think (nearly three years?). *can* a bios be flashed from linux of *bsd? > However it should > be silent and should still detect as a smaller disk, > Jeff It's detecting with the correct number of cylinders. Do I still need a flash? And does anyone know where shuttle/spacewalker has hid the information on the 603? I haven't found it on the last couple of trips to the site. (I presume that the board was short lived, as it was a specialty board: be the first to market with the via/amd chipset, unofficially run stably at 83mhz ["oops? we put those settings on the chip???? :) ], and a 1M cache.) >if I get a hard drive that chirps my supplier gets a prompt request for a >replacement. Unfortunately, the supplier is in San Diego, and I'm in Pennsylvania, so I assume I'll deal with IBM. The chirp isn't a sqeak; I'm not convinced that it's not a result of what the motherboard is telling it to do . . . hawk